CW has scheduled its latest DC adaptation, Superman & Lois, for a January 2021 debut and will take over the now concluded Arrow‘s Tuesday night timeslot, CW Chairman and CEO Mark Pedowitz said on a network scheduling call, as reported by Variety.
The show stars Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch as the titular Superman/Clark Kent and Lois Lane, as they raise their sons in Metropolis.
With the announcement of Superman & Lois‘ planned premiere comes good news and bad news. The bad news (per Variety) that CW has delayed the premiere of all of its new scripted programming from fall 2020 to January 2021, which is when CW’s other DC shows Batwoman, Flash, and Black Lightning will also return. Supergirl and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow won’t return till midseason.
The good news is, CW has announced its plans for its next DC crossover, a two-part event crossing over Superman & Lois with Batwoman, scheduled for some time in 2021.
“We’re still working on it. It will be a smaller event than usual, we’re only planning a two-hour event,” Deadline quotes Pedowitz as saying in the same call. “We are talking about doing Superman and Batwoman together. There’s a lot of characters coming from our other shows.”
Finally, Deadline is also reporting that the announced spin-off of Arrow – Green Arrow and the Canaries – starring Kat McNamara as Mia Smoak/Queen taking up the Green Arrow mantle alongside Katie Cassidy’s Laurel Lance and Juliana Harkavy’s Dinah Drake is “very much alive,” according to Pedowitz.
“They are very much in active discussions to see what we can do. I’ve had many discussions with Warner Bros, we have a strategy involved, hopefully we can pull it off,” he said, also referring to a spin-off of The 100.
The Green Arrow spin-off aired as a back-door pilot in the January 21 episode of Arrow‘s eigth and final season and was previously announced by executive producer Marc Guggenehim in October.